BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Suicides by Jean Baechler. Philosophical Disputes in the Social Sciences, by S. C. Brown (ed.) Social Research and Royal Commissions by M. Bulmer (ed.) Official Discourse by Frank Burton and Pat Carlen The View from Goffman by Jason Ditton (ed.) Greek Homosexuality by K. J. Dover The Sociology of Rock by Simon Frith Marx and Mead: Contributions to a Sociology of knowledge by T. W. Goff Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300–1348 by Barbara A. Hanawalt Demystifying Social Statistics, by John Irvine et al. (eds.) For Science in the Social Sciences, by David Papineau Marxism and Class Theory, by Frank Parkin The Material Word: Some Theories of Language and its Limits by David Silverman and Brian Torode Ethics and Society in England: The Revolution in the Social Sciences, 1870–1914 by Reba N. Softer Street Ethnography by Robert S. Weppner (ed.) On Clichés by Anton C. Zijderveld